The #teamspace of Jena-Optronik gives insights into its everyday life! In addition to exciting live demonstrations of our products, there will be drinks at the space bar and we will travel into space with you in the mobile planetarium.

In their natural environment, all insects, including pests of our crops, have natural antagonists. We make use of this for biological pest control in our greenhouse and largely dispense with insecticides.

Meet our lab heroes Iris, SELMA and FeliX

Why is the banana crooked?

Humans and animals have tiny roommates: microbes. Compare the microbes that live on different humans with those found on and in insects. Discover real symbionts among them, which are the focus of our research.

Would you like to get to know Analytik Jena as an employer? Find out about your entry and career opportunities with us.

Immerse yourself in the world of diversity that is barely visible or invisible to the naked eye! Dyes make symbionts visible under the microscope and insects from large to tiny can be seen in a completely different light under the stereomicroscope.

At the UKJ, we not only care about the health of our patients, but also about the welfare of our animals used in experimental research

Learn surgical suturing techniques using anatomical training models!

Get to know different training and study paths and try them out in practice

Brilliant research at Beutenberg - facade projection on ageing research and "Life Sciences meets Physics"

When hearing aids no longer help, an implantable hearing system can be the therapy that restores hearing to people with severe hearing loss or deafness. The indication for such a hearing system is examined at the ENT clinic in Jena

Ants are social insects that live in colonies of between a dozen individuals and millions of workers. Discover the tiny world and the variety of shapes, forms and diets of these fascinating insects!

Did you know that insects can smell? Discover how they do this and how we research them. We breed butterflies, grasshoppers and flies and explore their sense of smell. Test your own nose in fun competitions.

Brilliant research at Beutenberg - facade projection on "Life Sciences & Physics"